A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.

The unidentified Brit, thought to be from the West Midlands, is believed to have contracted it on a farm, where they had ...

Scientists found that a moderate dose of MEDI8852, an antibody therapy, effectively protected monkeys against severe H5N1 avian flu.

The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.

The Mail has recruited leading virologists, epidemiologists and pandemic planners to imagine the kind of scenario that might ...

Scientists are concerned that bird flu may eventually mutate so that it can readily spread among people – something it cannot ...

H5N1 viruses belonging to this group have managed ... If a susceptible species (pigs, cows, mink, etc) were infected with both human seasonal and avian influenza viruses, reassortment between ...

New cases of HPAI have been identified in the wild bird populations of 13 European countries over past two weeks.

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...